The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-06-09

We WIFI endeayor very briefly to de-
scribe tho method and the outcome of
his most remarkable experiments. The
groud OF microscopic monads were put
under the lens in a well-ftted water
cell at their usual temperature of 60 de-
grees Fahrenheit, the apartment, the
apparatus, and all around being careful
ly kept in precise unison. The doctor
then spent the first four months of his
observation time after time by stages
less than IL sixth of a degree until
his new swarm of protozoa had reached
the new and advanced reading of 20
degrees Fahrenheit.
The change, nevertheless, had no
more disturbed them than that Expert
enced by a British family when it mi
CRATES, from London to Cape Town; the
life history of each group remaining
unaltered; they moved, gyrated, fed,
and split themselves into new individu-
ais in just the same manner and within
much the same periods as before. When,
however, three more degrees had been
added to the 70, the monads showed
signs of being decidedly Inconvenience.
They were neither as lively nor as pro-
productive as formerly; yet. by keeping
them exactly at this range during two
quiet months. they regained their for
mer vigor, and might be compared to
emigrants who had become seasoned by
surviving the first hot spell in a tropi-
cal country. They could now stand
by gradual steps of increase-the en-
HANGED heat of 70 degrees, which was
reached at the commencement of the
twelfth month.
Yet here, again, a long pause was
found to be necessary; the new genera
tions OF those silver specks of life un-
der the glass were not all alike strong
enough to live and thrive. What
answers to sunstroke and fever with
us had caused vacant spaces to appear
in the water-drop. and it was only when
the monads showed themselves once
more lively and prolific by a long era
OF repose that the careful doctor ad-
ministered a further dose of %caloric.
During eight yearsand a half did he
thus slowly and unweariedly proceed
in the same course, augmenting the
heat of their surrounding element now
and then by slow and slight additions,
pausing afterWard for months to give
the minute creatures time to accommo-
date themselves when signs were visi-
BILE that they were under difficulties,
and always going forward to new trials
OF endurance. when they had recovered.
In this manner, after all those years,
DR.. Dallinger ! brought his small
patients to the astonishing range of
157 degrees Fahrenheit, at which the
latest generation appeared "as jolly as
sand boys."'
1t is not possible to say how much
farther their tiny constitutions could
have been trained to- defy increasing
warmth, because the research was at
this point accidently terminated; but it
will be seen that the doctor had
brought the little people of his drop
world to sustain a heat nearly 100 de.
grees higher than the flourishing point
of their ancestors, and species of which,
if taken at the beginning, would have
been completely and simultaneously
killed in water of 40 degrees. =
When we have. added that these
minute s~alamanders persisted directly
they were put back into their ancestral
medium of Is degrees it will be mani
fest that the indefatigable doctor had
by the magic of science. effected a
miracle Of nature. -.London Telegraph.